Pictures from the Romanian Workshop

National Public Radio's Ron Elving outlined in Sinaia how his organization approaches election-day coverage. "Our priorities are to be where the best sounds are captured," he said, so NPR sends journalists to the parties candidates throw for their supporters, to trail the candidates, and to where the votes are being counted.

Television news executive Mike Cavender, pictured here in Sinaia, offered examples of how television can cover stories about campaign financing. "Campaign financing is a story journalists love to do...One of the things that is most challenging is proving cause and effect," he said here in Sinaia.

Romanian government official Dan Jurcan said politicians should not simply follow the agenda or the media or the public. "Politics means above all leadership and vision," he said during the workshop in Sinaia.

Rob Daves, from the Star Tribune newspaper in Minneapolis here leads a small group discussion in Sinaia to discuss issues that will likely surface in the November elections in Romania. Daves, an expert on polling, later told the group how to use polls to learn about issues of concern to the electorate.

Political communication specialist Jeannie Layson, second from the right, also led a group discussion in Sinaia about campaign issues. In the Cluj-Napoca session she said that the goal of political candidates is to "get our message to the voters. We have to get the voters excited about the race. The more people who participate, the better it is for us."

A Romanian journalist, second from the right, reacts in Sinaia to Mike Cavender's discussion of television coverage of campaigns.

Lea Donosky from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, here at a coffee break in Cluj-Napoca, told the participants in the session there that "readers often confuse the editorial position of the paper with the news pages. They are really separate." Donosky said the paper gets a lot of complaints about its election coverage, but they come from both Republicans and Democrats. Donosky is joined for coffee by Cox Center Director Tudor Vlad, left, and NPR's Ron Elving.

Mariana Cernicova, a journalist from Timisoara, showed an election guide her paper created for the elections in that city during the sessions in Cluj-Napoca. She said, "you have to have a relationship with the establishment before, during and after the campaign." In addition to working as a journalist, Cernicova also teaches journalism at Universitatea Tibiscus in Timisoara.

	James M Cox Jr. Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research

	Pictures from the Romanian Workshop 2004


	Ann Hollifield, a specialist in media management and economics, added comments about the possible impact of media competition on campaign coverage while moderating the sessions. Here, in Cluj-Napoca, she is flanked by Cox Center Director Lee Becker, on her right, and Cox Center Director Tudor Vlad.